In the mid-1950s, Yayoi Kusama was a young artist living in Japan, where her future was very uncertain. Seeking advice from a more established female artist, Kusama wrote to Georgia O’Keeffe, whose work she greatly admired but whom she had never met. To Kusama’s surprise, O’Keeffe responded, thus establishing a correspondence that gave the young Japanese artist the courage to move to America and pursue her career in New York City, which was then the centre of the art world. Kusama’s decision, with O’Keeffe’s encouragement, forever changed the course of modern art history. The exhibition explores the mentoring relationship between Kusama and O'Keeffe.
Yayoi Kusama: A Letter to Georgia O’Keeffe examines the work of these two major artists through the lens of their connection to nature. The exhibition, which is on view until June 2024, explores the unexpected yet profoundly impactful mentoring relationship that developed between the iconic artists Kusama and O’Keeffe, and explores the ways in which the work of both artists is rooted in nature, befitting an art and horticultural experience set in a botanical garden.
The new Marie Selby Welcome Centre launched this year
'Dot Matrix' features golden barrel cacti suspended upside down at the Marie Selby Welcome Centre,
as part of the current exhibition 'Yayoi Kusama: A Letter to Georgia O’Keeffe'
'Moments of Levity' installation inspired by Yayoi Kusama, features small grey pebble flowers
depicted as a polka dot garden
a garden of spherical topiaries
'Tillandsia Tunnel' features hundreds of tillandsias in nets suspended from Ficus trees
Giant Ficus tree wth great undulating root structure
The serene Koi pond
Buddhist statue overlooks the Koi Pond
Zamia Floridana flower from Florida and the West Indies
Beautiful wild flower
The Pitcher Plant is a carnivorous plant that have modified leaves known as pitfall traps,
a prey-trapping mechanism featuring a deep cavity filled with digestive liquid
Beautiful pink and orange orchid
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